Integrated care for frailty
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2024-05-29
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Hendry, Anne
O'Caoimh, Rónán
Salem, Mohamed A.
Carriazo, Ana
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Springer Nature
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Integrated care for frailty improves quality of life and may reduce adverse outcomes, though more high-quality research is required. This chapter explores key components of effective integrated care for frailty, drawing on learning from the European Frailty Prevention Approach, a collaborative joint action involving 23 countries. The integrated model spans the continuum of prevention and health promotion, acute treatment, rehabilitation, proactive chronic care, long-term care, palliative and end-of-life care. It requires a capable multidisciplinary workforce with knowledge, skills and competencies in relational practice and comprehensive assessment. Care should be collaborative, outcomes focused, based on what matters to the individual and their caregivers, and include behavioural health and restorative approaches that support self-management and optimise functional ability, particularly when transitioning between care settings. The challenge for all systems is to understand how to adapt this model to their local context and to create the conditions to scale-up and sustain integrated care.
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Effective integrated care , Quality of life , European Frailty Prevention Approach
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Hendry, A., O’Caoimh, R., Salem, M.A., Carriazo, A. and Roller-Wirnsberger, R. (2024) ‘Integrated care for frailty’, in J.G. Ruiz and O. Theou (eds) Frailty: A multidisciplinary approach to assessment, management, and prevention. Springer International Publishing, pp. 223–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57361-3_31
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© 2024, the Authors, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Hendry, A., O’Caoimh, R., Salem, M.A., Carriazo, A. and Roller-Wirnsberger, R. (2024) ‘Integrated care for frailty’, in J.G. Ruiz and O. Theou (eds) Frailty: A multidisciplinary approach to assessment, management, and prevention. Springer International Publishing, pp. 223–228. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57361-3_31